Aeurobui Beandali

Aeurobui Beandali was an al-Qaeda member who was sentenced to ten years in prison for plotting to bomb the Strasbourg Cathedral in France.

Biography
Aerobui Beandali was born in Algeria to a Muslim family, and he received tuition at a private school that he had paid for himself. He was trained in jihad at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan for nine months at some point between 1998 and 2000, and he planned to attack a Jewish synagogue in the city of Strasbourg, France in January 2001 with the goal of "sending a message" to Israel. He mistakenly took a picture of the Strasbourg Cathedral, leading to officials believing that the attack would target the cathedral. In March 2003, he was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany with three other terror suspects and sentenced to ten to twelve years in prison.